 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...  The lives of the English poets - 178 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1810全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 ページ
...how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 ページ
...how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us,...Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies • iVr ill' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 ページ
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 ページ
...how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us,...that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tlirow, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 ページ
...But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Nor so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 ページ
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Sanft and easy motion. Not so when swift .Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. and Bob, First in every wieked job, Son and brother to a queer Brain-siek seours the plain. Flies o'er th' unbending eorn, and skims along t¡'-j Hear how Timotheus' vary'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 ページ
...sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rocks' vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so when swift Camilla scoure the plain, [main. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 ページ
...the effect is produced chiefly by a recurrence of accented syllables and of pauses : .... ( . ^ .. , When' A'jax' strives'' some' rock's' vast' weight'' to throw', The line'' too'' la'bors," and the verse " moves.'' slow'. And,'" like' a woun'ded snake,'" drags'' its' slow' length''... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 ページ
...how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skimi along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
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